‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Renewed For Season 7 By TNT

Veteran TNT drama Rizzoli & Isles, now airing its sixth season, has been renewed for Season 7 with a 13-episode order to air next summer. Stars Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander tweeted the news this afternoon.

Rizzoli & Isles, toplined by Harmon and Alexander, launched as part of TNT’s previous strategy that focused on crime procedurals to complement the network’s well performing off-network acquisitions like Law & Order. It was a breakout hit and remains a top performer for the network, especially in total viewers. Rizzoli & Isles ranked as basic cable’s No. 1 summer series last year and currently occupies the top spot this summer. Overall, the sixth season of Rizzoli & Isles is reaching an average of 11.1 million viewers per episode across TNT’s on-demand, digital and mobile platforms.

Under new Turner boss Kevin Reilly, TNT has been moving toward edgier, darker drama fare, with only a few of the network’s old shows staying on. The 13-episode Season 7 order for Rizzoli & Isles is the smallest for the drama since its 10-episode freshman run.

11 Comments

Great for them. Surprised they haven’t already ordered Major Crimes as well since they have been ahead of them two weeks running.

terrence • on Jul 23, 2015 6:37 pm

reilly is going to kill TNT. if he wanted to greenlight edgier programming, he should have gone to FX.

Jimmy • on Jul 23, 2015 6:45 pm

I don’t quite get the success of this series. I’ve checked it out several times over the year and it’s really rather unoriginal.

Amanda • on Jul 23, 2015 10:20 pm

It’s like fast food. People like it because they don’t know any better. Once they taste real food, they’ll never go back. And everybody who has ever seen an actual smart or original show will never go back to watching this crap. (It used to be a fun show but Jan Nash has ruined it for good.)

cadavra • on Jul 23, 2015 10:38 pm

Doesn’t matter, as long as it’s good, which it is.

Amanda • on Jul 24, 2015 3:24 am

To each their own I guess. I hope you’ll someday get the chance to watch some actual good shows and see the difference in the writing. I’m not sure why anybody would call a show “good” that has too many continuity errors to count them, that kills off a major character and then doesn’t even mention the aftermath in the next episode, that has a Chief ME with an IQ beyond 160 who spends her days sipping tea at home and has nothing else to do, that has a cop who is supposed to be the best in her department but acts like a whining child and carelessly gets a young girl shot, that has a supposedly super-touching love story (by Jan Nash’s own description) that happens completely off-screen, and that claims to be a cop show but has cops who don’t even follow basic crime scene protocols and regularly trample all over the evidence and jump to conclusions like “oh look, a gun in his hand and a shot to his head – must be suicide”.
And that’s just an excerpt of everything that’s wrong with this show.
But hey, if you think it’s “good”, good for you.

Someone with Talent • on Jul 24, 2015 4:48 pm

I’m not sure which family member is writing this drivel, but your days on the show are over and forgotten so quit it. Now your just plain annoying.

Anonymous • on Jul 23, 2015 7:48 pm

Congratulations. An excellent, smart series.

So short? • on Jul 23, 2015 8:17 pm

Why such a short season for season 7? Please tell me you’re not going to cancel this show! It’s great!!!

Herb Finn • on Jul 23, 2015 11:16 pm

I’m expecting “Major Crimes” to get a smaller order as well. for that matter, where is the announcement for that anyway?